Muscle Building Diet for the Asian Male
As a strength trainer with an Asian American background, I often get questions and comments from Asian dudes all over the world. A common theme that pops up among Asian lifters is the belief that their Asian genes are limiting their progress in their quest for a muscular physique. I always tell them this: don't let race or ethnicity be a limiting factor in your training goals or any goal. It does not matter if you are Asian or a skinny bastard or a woman. If your goal is to be bigger, faster, stronger, then you still travel the same road that everyone else travels to size and strength. I mean look at Tommy Kono . Here was a Japanese American who grew up in an internment camp, and he became arguably the greatest Olympic weightlifter the US offered to the world. He was also a successful bodybuilder, winning the Mr. Universe title in 1955 and 1957. He built a phenomenal physique in an era before steroids. He didn't let race or ethnicity be a limiting factor in his mind or on
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james sun is a great rolemodel for asian males. hes successful in a white world he's thorough, hardworking and a diplomat but more distinctively than any other asian ceo or even asian celeb goes, he speaks out against racism, in a subtle, but clear way.
playing the white game and still maintaining his integrity is the best thing an asian male can do, as long as that amount of western media discrimination is still there.
seems of all the asians, koreans, chinese, japanese, etc for all their sellouts, who proliferate the media/celeb world, koreans do tend to balance it out with publicly vocalising their racial pride, which the other ethnic asian groups, tend not to as much. not perfect, but its a start.
At first, people thought it was racism, or that the season finale had the unfortunate timing of being after Virginia Tech. But James was overqualified, and working as Trump's bitch would have been a severe under-utilization of his skills and talents.
You bring up a good point about Koreans. A lot of the Asian Americans out there making an impact and are highly visible are Koreans: Yul Kwon, DDK, David Chang, John Cho, Tim Kang, Steve Yeun, David Choe, etc.
Other Asian groups have highly successful people making an impact on society, but they seem to be more behind scenes people. Chinese Americans have SF mayor Ed Lee and director Justin Lee. The only real Chinese American out there in the limelight is Jeremy Lin.
Why the difference between Korean Americans and Chinese Americans as far as limelight? There seems to be a difference in the way Chinese and Korean Americans deal with racism and assimilation: Chinese vs Koreans